The Top Songs Of The Day of 2014: #10-2

Lots of bittersweetness about this one. It came at the end of Black Music Month, accompanying a piece that's about as personal as I get these days, just a few months before Mr. Ruffin passed on, leaving us to figure out what becomes of the broken-hearted ourselves.

From the surprisingly successful theme week Accidents of Adult Contemporary. Linda Ronstadt covered this Little Feat song with earnestness. She really, really wanted those weeds, whites and wine. Would not be denied.

The Eurovision Song Contest winner was a last-minute switch on my part. There was no way I could ignore the star power of Wurst, as she traipsed over Slavic intolerance and rose like a, a, ahh, I can't come up with a simile. Shove it, Putin.